Austrian company files injunction against outcome bidding process GREAT BAY – When Minister Emil Lee (Public Health) met with the board of social and health insurance agency SZV in December of last year to discuss the hospital project he found that the chairman of the board, Dr. Michel Petit, “was very much protecting the non-bid offer from Vamed.” “He said we should bring in a couple of consultants to verify the price,” Lee said yesterday at the Council of Ministers press briefing. “I was adamant that the right way to go was with an open and transparent bidding process.” Nevertheless,…
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That is the suggestion of the prosecution in the summons GREAT BAY – Prison Director Edward Rohan gave MP Silvio Matser in August 2014, when he was a candidate for the United People’s party, a list of eligible voters in the Pointe Blanche prison, it appeared during a pro forma hearing in the Court in First Instance yesterday. Of the 68 eligible voters, 48 voted for the UP in 2014; the other votes went to the National Alliance (12), the US party and the DP (3 each) and one to Jacinto Mocks’ Social Reform Party. The prosecution accuses Matser, who…
Left to right is Sellier, Chin and Govia while they were getting acquainted with the course in Bellevue yesterday afternoon – Photo by Milton Pieters. GREAT BAY- When the 2nd annual Caribbean Mountain Bike Championships peddles off on Sunday in Bellevue, the Friendly Island will have a total of six participants among the field of 41 riders from eight countries. Peter Sellier, the defending Caribbean champion along with his two male team mates Ryan Chin and Christopher Govia from Trinidad & Tobago were among the first to arrive on the island early yesterday. The female rider on the team Candace…
Meeting of the Our Land Matters movement MARIGOT – Last Friday the Our Land Matters movement met with several district leaders, heads of associations and other families to discuss the current status of affairs. The discussion highlighted not only the history of the ongoing debacle with the Beauperthuy properties but also that the manner in which this situation is being handled is considered to be against human rights and unfounded. It also brought about discussion on the lack of concern from the side of the local government. Also highlighted during the discussion was the need to unite and stand as…
Says Louis Mussington. MARIGOT—The French prison system is in dire need of repair and as a result the French Republic is looking at the amount of finances needed to have the Penitentiary in Basseterre and Point-e-Pete fixed permanently, said Louis Mussington in a reaction to the recent death of Mathieu Carty, the teenager who was killed in Basseterre prison after he was arrested for the rape and death of Wendy Montulet. Placing Carty in the prison population was incorrect according to Mussington but he believes that prisons in the Caribbean and in the entire Republic of France are seriously overcrowded.…
Things are shaping up at the new government administration building. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar GREAT BAY – Right on time before the elections, the Council of Ministers will move into the new government administration building on Pond Island tomorrow. The opening ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. Election stunt or not, with the move the building that was ready for occupation in 2008 will finally get its first occupants. The offices of the ministers and their staff are on the fourth floor. On the ground floor, the entrance hall has been neatly tiled and yesterday workers were still busy…
UP-leader Theo Heyliger upset about Masbangu-appeal Billboard of UP-leader Theo Heyliger on Walter Nisbeth Road, with billboards of Finance Minister and NA-candidate Richard Gibson in the background. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar GREAT BAY – The witch hunt and selective prosecution are continuing with yet another appeal filed by the Prosecutor’s Office in the so-called “Masbangu” case, leader of the United People’s party Theo Heyliger said in a press statement. “The Prosecutor’s Office did not succeed once. They tried again and did not succeed. I guess they believe the third time’s the charm in their trumped up attempt to discredit…
As we point out in our editorial today, the witch hunt UP-leader Theo Heyliger speaks about (see article on page 3) is a figment of his imagination. On one count the UP-leader is correct: the court acquitted the suspects in the Masbangu election fraud case. But how innocent were these defendants really? In court Roy H., an uncle of the party-leader freely admitted that he had paid money to the police officers who came begging for money in exchange for their votes. One of the police officers freely admitted that he had taken the money. All this took place right…
GREAT BAY – MP Silvio Matser will have to find another attorney after his legal counsel Cor Merx threw in the towel yesterday during a pro forma hearing about the Octopus-investigation into vote-buying ahead of the 2014 elections. Merx was upset with Judge Dirk Gruijters when it came to setting a date for the next court hearing. Merx did not have his agenda with him and suggested to exchange options via email but the judge adjourned the meeting for fifteen minutes to give the attorney the time to go to his office and come back with his agenda. “I do…
The United People’s party goes into the elections with a severely damaged reputation. That is not, as party-leader Theo Heyliger suggests, due to a so-called witch hunt by the prosecutor’s office but to the party’s shenanigans that marred the elections of 2010 and 2014. It is true that the court acquitted the suspects in the Masbangu-case, but it has nevertheless been established – and admitted by an uncle of Heyliger – that he paid police officers at the party headquarters just before the 2010 elections. And that uncle told investigators that he gave account to the UP-leader. Yesterday details became…
